You can fool some people sometimes
But you can’t fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light
We gonna stand up for our rights – marley

You know, people say we can take examples from nature. I agree. One thing they often say is we should learn to be more like a tree and bend with the wind. As a younger person I was pretty angry. Too many years in the storm left me a bit shell-shocked. It took years to “lock, release, & bury”. These days I’ve really taken “bending with the wind” to heart. But yet, I have to be careful. Out hiking on the bluffs yesterday I came to this red cedar along the forested edge of a cliff. It reminded me that bending with the wind is just fine, but you can’t stay in a tempest either. You can’t let the wind shape you. Sometimes you do have to “fight the wind”. Sometimes you have to seek shelter. You have to make choices, take control. . . sometimes. If not, you just become twisted.